Emerging Wireless LANs, Wireless PANs, and Wireless MANs

Preface

About Editors

Part I: IEEE 802.11 WIRELESS LANS

Chapter 1: IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control and Physical Layers

Chapter 2: A Framework for Decentralized Wireless LAN Resource Management

Chapter 3: Incentive Issues in IEEE 802.11x Wireless Networks

Chapter 4: Capacity and rate adaptation in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

Part II: IEEE 802.15.1 BLUETOOTH and IEEE 802.15.2

Chapter 5: An Overview on IEEE 802.15.1 Medium Access Control and Physical Layers

Chapter 6: An Overview on IEEE 802.15.2: Coexistence of wireless personal area networks with other unlicensed frequency bands operating wireless devices

Chapter 7: Coexistence of Bluetooth Piconets and Wireless LAN

Part III: IEEE 802.15.3 WIRELESS PANS

Chapter 8: Frame Format, Channel Access, and Piconet Operation of IEEE 802.15.3 Wireless PANs

Chapter 9: Power Management and Security of IEEE 802.15.3 Wireless PANs

Chapter 10: Performance evaluation and optimization of IEEE 802.15.3 piconets

Chapter 11: Performance Analysis of MB-OFDM UWB Systems

Chapter 12: A Distributed Solution for Resource Allocation in Ultra-Wideband Wireless PANs

Part IV: IEEE 802.15.4 and 802.15.5 WIRELESS PANS

Chapter 13: IEEE 802.15.4 Medium Access Control and Physical Layers

Chapter 14: Performance Analysis for IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Personal Area Networks

Chapter 15: Data Transmission and Beacon Scheduling in Low Rate Wireless Mesh Personal Area Networks

Chapter 16: Impact of reliable and secure sensing on cluster lifetime in IEEE 802.15.4 networks

Chapter 17: IEEE 802.15.5 - the recommended practice for WPAN mesh network (Low data rate)

Chapter 18: Power Saving algorithms on IEEE 802.15.4 for Wireless sensor networks

Part V: IEEE 802.16 WIRELESS MANS

Chapter 19: IEEE 802.16 Medium Access Control and Physical Layers

Chapter 20: QOS support for WiMAX

Chapter 21: Subchannel Allocation and Connection Admission Control in OFDMA-Based IEEE 802.16/WiMAXCompliant

Yang Xiao, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Alabama. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and currently serves as Editor in Chief of International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), and International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (IJTA). His areas of research include security, telemedicine, sensor networks, and wireless networks. He has published more than 300 papers in major journals, refereed conference proceedings, and books related to the aforementioned areas.
 
Yi Pan, PhD, is a Yamacraw Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, optical networks, wireless networks, and bioinformatics. His work on computing using reconfigurable optical buses has inspired extensive subsequent work by many researchers, and his research results have been cited by more than 100 researchers worldwide. He is a co-holder of three U.S. patents (pending) and five provisional patents; has coedited eleven books or conference proceedings; and has published more than 130 research papers.